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Re: Zip Codes ctype? Pregmatch? [message #182660 is a reply to message #182657] Sun, 25 August 2013 14:31 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Curtis Dyer <dyer85(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in news:kva1hr$rc0$1(at)dont-email(dot)me:

> Perhaps you might also keep invalid postal codes in an array to look
> up before utilizing the regular expression.

What happens when new postal codes are added?

Perhaps one might simply send a request to the USPS address validation API to find out if it's
a valid zip code or not. Use the "City-State Lookup" tool described here:

https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/address-information.htm

I don't know if Canada Post has similar tools.
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